Before US Marshals launched a manhunt for child murderer Lester Eubanks, there was 'The Fugitive'.
This report is part of the ABC News podcast,"Have You Seen This Man?," hosted by 'The View's' Sunny Hostin. The podcast follows the U.S. Marshals' ongoing mission to find Lester Eubanks, a dangerous convict who escaped from police custody in 1973 and has never been found.
Sheppard, of Bay Village, Ohio, was the man who some believe served as one of the inspirations for the long-running 1960s television series"The Fugitive" and the hit 1993 Harrison Ford film of the same name. "It was the biggest crime probably of the decade," said David Meyers, a historian and author of"Inside the Ohio Penitentiary .""You had this doctor -- young, handsome doctor -- and his attractive wife, had everything going for him, and she was murdered and he had this excuse about fighting off the bushy-haired man… It was made for television."
Over the next 10 years, Sheppard's experience in prison mirrored that of Lester Eubanks'. Because of Sheppard's medical expertise and the buzz surrounding his trial, Meyers said, the prison granted him some special privileges, going so far as to remove him from the general population -- a freedom also earned by Eubanks .
In the television show, Kimble claimed a one-armed man had killed his wife -- Sam Sheppard had always said it was a bushy-haired man. Kimble escaped captivity and was hunted by the authorities, but Sam Sheppard remained behind bars for 10 years. However, as the jury deliberated, Bailey noted that there was"a wrinkle." By 1966,"The Fugitive" had already been on television for three years, including two of the years in which Sam Sheppard was imprisoned.
According to Meyers, Sam Sheppard's stage gimmick was the"special blood" he had that had resisted the cancer cell injection while he was in prison. Still, Bailey claims that"The Fugitive" is clearly based on Sam Sheppard's case, saying Huggins"wanted to claim an original idea, and [was] concerned about lawsuits.
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